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I reckon it's a script kiddie, there is no way a real hacker would have put a $300 value on the data.
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Wouldn't be too surprised if it was I've of the political opponents of the NHS. Trying to make it look bad.
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@Zaphod65 Nah, they are to busy grooming themselves and counting​ their phat stacks.
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I've been searching a way to know if a computer is vulnerable or not, do you have any idea?
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Not to mention how many people actually died or were physically injured due to medical staff not having proper access to charting software and other inneficiencies or miscommunications.
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Don't worry mate, now that you are leaving the EU you'll have a lot of spare cash to rebuild the NHS.
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Root826008y@Zaphod65 If it's running out of funds, making it look bad isn't a difficult thing to do...
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It was an international hack, lots of big companies of said countries were hacked. From what I've seen it was a ransomware spreading over an SMB vulnerability on Windows.
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wmhilton3398yThe sad truth is, the ransomeware author probably didn't target them specifically. It's a virus. Unfortunately, hospitals are more likely that not to be behind on software updates (including security updates) because of the risk an automatic update gone awry. "Defibrillator is installing updates... Please wait."
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SirNovi08yAll kinds of systems went down and NHS probably was 'just' collateral damage. Not unlikely that some agency like NSA is involved.
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